Category Archives: Crowdsourcing

Working Session proposal: Watching and Talk Pages in Drupal 7

Many wikis, including Wikipedia, encourage user-centered curation through a combination of discussion and notification: Talk pages and Watching. Talk pages are forums affiliated with each content page, where users can defend or question posted information, providing both a history of … Continue reading

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Collaboration, Archives, and E-textbooks

From Roger Panetta: What are the best platforms for developing semester-long collaborative class projects? What are the best ways to engage the public in the development and use of archives? For an interdisciplinary history of the Hudson River, what are … Continue reading

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Working Session on Blogging Archives from the Classroom to the Community

How can blogs best be incorporated into the college classroom and can they build a bridge with the broader online community?  Jane Carr and I have been considering this question while launching a new blog, Archive Notebook, where we share … Continue reading

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